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TIL about the PL-12 Airtruk. The world's ugliest airplane.

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b98OZ TIL that “skin hunger” is an accepted term in academia describing the desire for more touch in different types of relationships.
mxkoo TIL that the blue light exposure from a monitor is about 100 times below the international recommended limit. The spectrally weighted irradiance from computer screens and mobile devices is a lot lower than the natural exposures.
WjKB TIL that “spaghetti” is actually the plural form of the word. An individual strand is referred to as a “spaghetto”
lbv7 TIL Japaneses invented a machine that un-censor japanese pornography.
wLdVo TIL between 1982 and 1995, Robert Goldman asked athletes in power and combat sports if they would take a performance-enhancing pill that would grant them overwhelming success in their sport, but kill them in 5 years. More than half said yes.